Elon Musk is a self-proclaimed historical past buff.
“He likes navy historical past,” Walter Isaacson, the creator of a much-anticipated Musk biography, advised Axios. “He believes there are classes that apply to company life.”
Certainly one of his inspirations was Napoleon Bonaparte, the French navy genius who rose to energy in the course of the French Revolution and have become Emperor of France.
Isaacson factors to 1 management technique Musk realized from studying about Bonaparte.
“He believes that wherever Napoleon was, that is the place his armies would do finest. So he appreciated to indicate up late at evening on the meeting strains at Tesla and SpaceX,” Isaacson mentioned.
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Sharing the battlefield
For instance, whereas engineers had been constructing a Starship booster on the SpaceX launch website in Boca Chica, Texas, Musk hung across the space for an hour, observing.
“In the event that they see their normal on the battlefield, they are going to be extra motivated,” Musk advised Isaacson.
This may occasionally additionally clarify why Musk spends a lot time within the ‘X’ places of work. Based on an article within the BBC, Musk has put in beds in Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters in order that he can sleep there.
Based on worker Dolly Singh, Musk slept on the workplace flooring at SpaceX.
“Elon desires to reside in a world the place he works 80 hours per week,” she mentioned. “It is OK for him to say, ‘I anticipate you to work as onerous as me,’ as a result of he isn’t phoning it in from the seaside, he is sleeping in a sleeping bag on the manufacturing facility flooring.”
Concerning the new biography
The intimate, new biography entitled Elon Musk will drop on September 12. Isaacson, who additionally wrote bestselling biographies of Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci, spent two years shadowing Musk. He was given unprecedented entry, attending conferences with him and becoming a member of him for walks round his factories. He additionally spent hours interviewing him, his household, pals, coworkers, and adversaries.
Concerning the cage match
Oh, and talking of Musk’s adversaries, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is undoubtedly one, as evidenced by all of the discuss a cage match between the 2 billionaires.
However Isaacson advised Axios he thinks speak of Zuckerberg combating Musk in a cage match “is totally ridiculous.”
A number of days in the past, he shared a screenshot of a textual content alternate between Musk and Zuckerberg, making the struggle appear to be it will not occur anytime quickly.
I bought this textual content message from Elon Musk at 4:44am CT displaying a screenshot of some textual content messages by which he tells Mark Zuckerberg they need to struggle this Monday at Zuckerberg’s dwelling in Palo Alto. pic.twitter.com/krgRsH5P5G
— Walter Isaacson (@WalterIsaacson) August 13, 2023
